Publication Date:
2024-01-12
Description:
Ovulid gastropods and their octocoral hosts were collected along the leeward coast of Cura\xc3\xa7ao, Netherlands Antilles. New\nmolecular data of Caribbean and a single Atlantic species were combined with comparable data of Indo-Pacific Ovulidae and a\nsingle East-Pacific species from GenBank. Based on two DNA markers, viz. CO-I and 16S, the phylogenetic relationships\namong all ovulid species of which these data are available are reconstructed. The provisional results suggest a dichotomy between\nthe Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific taxa. Fully grown Simnialena uniplicata closely resembles juvenile Cyphoma gibbosum\nconchologically. Cymbovula acicularis and C. bahamaensis might be synonyms. The assignments of Caribbean host species\nfor Cyphoma gibbosum, C. signatum, Cymbovula acicularis and Simnialena uniplicata are revised.
Keywords:
Anthozoa
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Alcyonacea
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Caribbean
;
Cura\xc3\xa7ao
;
molecular phylogeny
;
symbiosis
Repository Name:
National Museum of Natural History, Netherlands
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Format:
application/pdf
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